#BreakingNews 🇵🇰 Pakistan raises high-octane fuel prices by 200% amid oil supply disruptions linked to Hormuz tensions.

#RussiaUkraineWar 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Massive Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russia’s Primorsk port, a key oil export hub processing up to 1.5M barrels/day, about 1,000 km from Ukraine.

#BreakingNews 🇵🇰 Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a TTP faction, has threatened upcoming PSL matches in Lahore and Karachi, warning foreign players to withdraw over security risks.

#RussiaUkraineWar 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine targets Russia’s largest oil port.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇺🇸 The U.S. Embassy in Muscat has issued a nationwide shelter-in-place alert across Oman citing “ongoing activity.”

#MiddleEastConflict 🇺🇸🇮🇶🇸🇾 Rockets fired from Mosul, Iraq are targeting a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria, Reuters reports.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇺🇸 🇹🇷 🇪🇬 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 Axios reports that Türkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan have been acting as intermediaries, relaying messages between the U.S. and Iran over the past two days to help ease tensions.

#BreakingNews 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. is aiming to end the war with Iran by April 9, according to Ynet.

#BreakingNews 🇦🇪🇸🇩 Le Monde reports the UAE is rerouting weapons supplies to Sudan’s RSF through countries like Ethiopia and the Central African Republic, with linked aircraft making frequent covert flights into the region.

#BreakingNews 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Yediot Ahronot: An Israeli official says the U.S. has set April 9 as the target date to end the war.

#BreakingNews 📉🛢🇮🇷🇺🇸 Oil prices fell sharply after Trump signaled possible de-escalation with Iran, citing “productive talks” and ordering a five-day pause on strikes against Iranian energy sites. Markets reacted immediately to easing tensions.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇱🇧🇮🇱 Heavy clashes erupt between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇵🇰 Pakistan is positioning itself as a mediator between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, proposing to host talks soon, with its army chief and prime minister in contact with both Washington and Tehran.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇮🇷 CBS, citing U.S. officials, reports Iran has deployed several underwater mines in the Strait of Hormuz, including domestically produced limpet mines, with estimates ranging up to around a dozen.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇺🇸 The Pentagon is weighing deploying ~3,000 82nd Airborne paratroopers for potential operations in Iran, including a possible move to seize Kharg Island, with Marines likely leading initial ground efforts: NYT

#RussiaUkraineWar 🇺🇦 Ukraine faces a diesel shortage for April, unable to afford high prices and lacking domestic refining capacity after Russian strikes.

#BreakingNews 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israeli officials believe the U.S. and Iran could hold talks in Islamabad later this week: Reuters

#BreakingNews 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf denies any talks with the U.S., calling the reports “fake news” aimed at manipulating markets.

#BreakingNews 🇺🇸 A major fire broke out at Valero’s Port Arthur oil refinery in Texas after a reported explosion. The cause remains unknown.

#BreakingNews 🇱🇹🇧🇾🇷🇺 An unidentified UAV, likely a kamikaze drone, crashed in Lithuania near the Belarus border after breaching its airspace.

#MiddleEastConflict 🇮🇷🇸🇦 Multiple waves of Iranian strikes have hit targets across Saudi Arabia over the past few hours, with attacks still ongoing.